Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-02-25
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The new hospital building at Fol
Steilacoom will be ready for Occupanc
June 1st.
1t is reported that logs have ad
vanced from 81 per thousand to $5.5
ON Gray's Harbor.
A large portion of the new hotel a
Wallula Junction was carried ava,
during a recent wind storm.
Padilla bay, near LaConner, was en-
tirely frozen over recently for the frs
time known to white settlers.
The Port Discovery Mill Compan,
has leased the Port Townsend sawmil
and will soon have it in operation.
Rev. J. R. Thompson was arreste'
for attempted assault at Vancouver
few days ago. Blessed are the peace
makers"
The Shelton Journal says that tn
Satsop company will soon build {
roundhouse and turn-table there, ant
expect a 26-ton locomotive.
The total gold product of Washing
ton Territory is said to be for 1884,
$4,000, $4,000 of this amount being
the product Of Kittitas county.
There were 200 fallen trees on thu
track of the Northern Pacific railroad
during the recent rough weather, be
tween the 60 and 18th mile post.
The experiment of sending Walls
Walla flour to China has proved sue
cess, as Mr.. H. P. Isaacs has just re
ceived an order for 200 tons more.
All the directors of the Northern
Pacific railroad expect to leave the
East early in May for trip over the
Cascade branch, en- route to Tacoma.
The Ancon, Idaho and Olympian are
to be placed on the route between
Townsend and Sitka, Alaska, the com
ing spring. Weekly trips will be made
An agent of the Northern Pacific
company, of Portland, was in Kalams
last week contracting for all the logs
he could get at S. and $3.50 per thous
and.
The manager of the Columbia river
paper company writes that the com
pany's mill, burned at LaCamas las
fall, will be rebuilt and in operation
about July 1st, 1887.
Another volume of Supreme Cour
reports of this Territory is soon to bt
issued. Henry G. Struve, of Seattle
will prepare the same, having been ap
pointed Supreme Court reporter.
Citizens of Palouse county are or
ganizing a $4,000 joint stock com
pany to engage extensively in th'
manufacture of sash, doors and sucl
other material as they may deem ex
pedient.
There are being shipped from Oys
ter bay, Mud bay and Big Skookum
as much as ten tons of oysters pei
week. This industry gives employ
ment to at least fifty persons-largel!
Indians.
An iron mine located about on,
mile from Cheney is said to have beer
uncovered to the extent of ninety feet
and tests show that it will run at leas
40 per cent in iron, and will make ex
cellent fluxing.
Noah Taylor, of the upper Chehali'
valley, has with the assistance of {
boy, cleared four acres of dense brush
land, picking and burning it ready
for crop, and in addition cultivated
and harvested 271 bushels of wheat
the past season.
As another evidence of returning
prosperity in Oregon and Washington
it may be said that failures thus fa
this year have been very few, and th'
amount involved is less than 40 pc
cent. of the amount for a correspond
ing time in 1886.
Mr.. Livermore, of Walla Walla, il
going East with q view of maxim,
known to people who are thinking o
coming to this Territory the peculia
advantages of that city and county
His expenses will be paid by the peo
pie of Walla Walla.
Inspector NJ. A. Thomas is busy in
specting the Indian reservation il
Washington Territory. The Puyallu]
agency, in charge of Rev. Mr.. Eells
that worthy old pioneer, Mr.. Thoma
says, is the best regulated IndiaI
agency in the United States.
News has just been received tina
VIM. Mintie, late Inspector OF CUSTOM
at Port Townsend, while on his wa,
East got caught in railroad collision
and was badly hurt. The extent G
his injuries could not be ascertained
but they are thought not to be seriou.
Here is another sample of the won
derful l'roductiveness of the Chehali
valley, says the Tidette. Noah Taylor
living near Greenwood, last season hal
vest I'd and threshed from six and
half acres of land two hundred an
seventy bu,hels of No. l wheat, whic
weighed sixty-one pounds to tn
bushel.
Rev. L. G. Davis, President of tn
Pennsylvania Welsh colony, has wri
ten to Sprague parties stating that tn